Advances in transportation certainly facilitate the spread of diseases like swine flu. With thousands of people traveling between cities and countries on a every single day basis, whether by planes, trains or automobiles, the speed and breadth of potential transmission is far greater than in early times.
However, technological advances have led to the creation of the Internet, [...]
Posts from ‘April, 2009’
The Role Of The Internet In The Swine Flu Crisis
Offshore Accounts in Dangerous Waters
According to ”IRS: Offshore account holders said fess up to lower penalties” (03/27/09) by Kevin McCoy, published in USA Today, the Internal Revenue Service finally is claiming its tax stake in unreported offshore accounts owned or controlled by U.S. citizens, under severe penalties if voluntary compliance is not forthcoming.
Trying to lure wealthy Americans to disclose assets [...]
DOL to Increase FLSA Investigations
By: Paul Cherner
The U.S. General Accounting Office (”GAO”) recently issued a scathing report about the DOL’s handling of FLSA investigations. The title of the report is “Wage and Hour Division’s Complaint Intake and Investigative Processes Leave Low Wage Workers Vulnerable to Wage Theft.”
In response, the new DOL Secretary, Hilda Solis, issued a News Release stating [...]
Attorney General Commands Open Government
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By Eric Sinrod
In a recent memorandum to heads of federal executive departments and agencies, Lawyer General Eric Holder, Jr. has followed President Obama’s earlier lead in instructing that the Freedom of Information Act be administered with the clear presumption of openness.
According to the Lawyer General, this presumption has 2 important implications.
The first implication is [...]
